Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep

1850

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; second state of five
Dimensions: sheet: 12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in. (30.7 x 22.2 cm) plate: 4 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (12.4 x 11.7 cm) image: 3 7/8 x 3 3/16 in. (9.8 x 8.1 cm)
Collection no.: 17.55.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Samuel Palmer. Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep. Samuel Palmer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of G. L. Winthrop, 1917. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep — Samuel Palmer. 1850.

Medium: Etching; second state of five. Dimensions: sheet: 12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in. (30.7 x 22.2 cm) plate: 4 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (12.4 x 11.7 cm) image: 3 7/8 x 3 3/16 in. (9.8 x 8.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of G. L. Winthrop, 1917.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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